Today’s Headlines for Friday, October 14

• $30M in ITEP Grants Announced, Including Many Useful Bike/Ped Projects (Ride IL)
• Sign Active Trans Vision Zero Call to Action to Lobby City to Prevent Hit-and-Runs
• Medill Reports Looks at the Current Push to Prevent Bike Fatalities in Chicago
• Man Jumps on Car Hood to Stop Hit-and-Run Driver in Riverside (Tribune)
• Ex-Cop Charged With DUI: I Only Wanted to Taste the Eggnog (Tribune)
• Metra Board to Weigh Alternatives to 8.5% Fare Increase (Sun-Times)
• Chicago Attorney Files Suit Claiming Uber Discriminates Against the Disabled (Crain’s)
• Activists Take Over LSD to Protest Alleged Plan to Remove Uptown Tents (Tribune)
• LA Wonders Why Its Bike-Share Isn’t as Popular as Citibike and Divvy (LA Times)
• RedEye Publishes a Reader’s Pretty Good Poem About the CTA
• Leaders Debate the Transportation Lockbox Amendment 10/26 at YPT Chicago Social

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